The full Pod Awful video with over 37,000 views, which they claim is the only footage they have, can be seen here:

The first 2/3 of the video are pretty innocuous and even interesting. Pod Awful is definitely checking out Comet Ping Pong and Besta Pizza. They even get clear video footage of a staircase leading underground at Besta Pizza.

But then they decided to hoax their audience: the last 1/3 of the video is a total, complete, 100% deliberate, misleading, lying fraud.

To begin with, let’s take a look at what Pod Awful shows in their video:

They show you quick jump cuts leading you to believe that they are entering a “side door” in an “alley” near the Chevy Chase Pediatrics Center — very close to Besta Pizza and Comet Ping Pong — in Washington, D.C.:

The next clip, in the dark, shows them entering what looks like an underground entrance next to the hospital:

They selectively edit their footage once “inside” and imply that the area has “never seen maintenance”:

They then show footage of some abandoned furniture, splicing it between clips of the “underground” area and lead you to believe that the furniture is in an underground area that “smells like death”:

Despite being a self-described comedy podcast, Pod Awful didn’t submit this as a joke. WeSearchr’s submission team told me Pod Awful defended their submission in private communication with WeSearchr. They never once said it was a parody or a joke.

So here’s the thing: none of it is true. I know because I personally went to Washington, D.C. during the day and investigated Pod Awful’s video.

The entrance is clearly the same, with the same light, handrails, stains, and even the same leaf in the corner:

The entrance has nothing to do with Chevy Chase Pediatrics Center, it belongs firmly to the unrelated building next door:

In fact, that parking garage is what the Pod Awful hoaxsters pretend is some kind of abandoned underground area!

I was in there personally and there was no “unbearable stench of death,” like they claimed. It smelled like absolutely nothing except a little car exhaust, like any parking garage. Why would it even smell? It has more than one entrance, including one for vehicles:

Pod Awful deliberately didn’t film anything in the garage that would reveal it as just that — a parking garage. Compare the still from their fake video to my daytime photograph clearly showing markings for residents’ cars:

And the furniture? Pod Awful, with its selective editing, implied the furniture was in some kind of underground area, when in fact it was simply sitting on the street, waiting to be thrown out. Compare Pod Awful’s hoax video with my photograph in the daylight:

The pile of trash furniture was bigger when I came around, but it was undoubtedly the same pile:

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